UKNow sat down with Beecher Reuning, a filmmaker and assistant professor in the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information’s School of Journalism and Media, to hear their insight on the Academy Awards and film industry.
Graduates of the University of Kentucky Department of Integrated Strategic Communication (ISC) are trained to target specific audiences in their communication campaigns, but Jonathon Spalding, a 2013 ISC alum, never anticipated that he may need to know how to target a specific region of space and its potential alien audiences too.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who exposed corruption and the impact of strip mining, a leading Black journalist, a former religion reporter who now preaches and writes a column, the former leader of one of Kentucky’s largest media outlets, and two longtime journalism educators, one a broadcaster and the other an editor-publisher, make up the 2024 class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
Victor Luckerson will discuss “How the Press Shaped the Tulsa Race Massacre and Its Legacy” at 5:15 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in Grand Ballroom A of the Gatton Student Center on the University of Kentucky campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
On this 2024 Leap Day, the University of Kentucky is celebrating all the Wildcats who can call this unusual day their birthday, which includes just 14 current students and eight employees. And out of more than 280,000 known living UK alumni around the world, only 157 of them were born on Leap Day, or about .05%. The oldest of those 157 alumni is 1949 UK graduate Charles E. Whaley. Born in 1928, Whaley is 96 years old today, although he is celebrating only his 24th actual birthday.
Jane Reynolds, director of product marketing at Match Group, will deliver the 2024 Irwin Warren Lecture in Advertising and Digital Media from 5-6 p.m. Monday, March 18. The lecture will be presented in the University of Kentucky Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema and is free and open to the public.
Sherali Zeadally, Ph.D., University of Kentucky Alumni Association Endowed Professor and University Research Professor in the College of Communication and Information's School of Information Science, has been named winner of the 2024 SEC Faculty Achievement Award for the university this spring.
University of Kentucky Intercollegiate Debate members David Griffith and Jordan Di have received one of the coveted 16 first-round bids to the 2024 National Debate Tournament hosted by Emory University in April.
The University of Kentucky Office of Land-Grant Engagement has announced that two CI faculty members SIS professor Maria Cahill and ISC assistant professor Sarah Geegan's community engagement projects were two of the nine projects selected for funding.
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